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USA Statutes : new_jersey
Title : TITLE 30 INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES
Chapter : 30:4C-3.
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30:4C-3. Duties of Division of Youth and Family Services.
3. The Division of Youth and Family Services, in administering the provisions of this act, whereby the safety of children shall be of paramount concern, shall:
(a) provide care and custody for children eligible therefor in such manner that the children may, so far as practicable, continue to live in their own homes and family life be thereby preserved and strengthened;
(b) provide necessary welfare services as may be required by such children, so far as practicable, without assumption of custody;
(c) encourage the development of private and voluntary agencies qualified to provide welfare services for children to the end that through cooperative effort the need for such services may be limited or reduced; and
(d) for each child placed outside his home by the division, provide permanency through return of the child to the child@s own home, if the child can be returned home without endangering the child@s health or safety; through adoption, if family reunification is not possible; or through an alternative permanent placement, if termination of parental rights is not appropriate.
L.1951,c.138,s.3; amended 1962, c.197, s.9; 1999, c.53, s.21.
30:4C-3.1 ~Review Panel~ established.
1. There is hereby established in, but not of, the Department of Human Services the Division of Youth and Family Services Staffing and Outcome Review Panel (~Review Panel~).
L.2001,c.252,s.1.
30:4C-3.2 Membership of review panel.
2. The Review Panel shall consist of 20 members as follows:
a. The Commissioner of Human Services, or a designee, shall serve ex-officio.
b. The Commissioner of Personnel, or a designee, shall serve ex-officio.
c. The State Treasurer, or a designee, shall serve ex-officio.
d. The Attorney General, or a designee, shall serve ex-officio.
e. The Public Defender, or a designee, shall serve ex-officio.
f. The Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, or a designee, shall serve ex-officio.
g. A representative of the Office of the Governor.
h. The Child Advocate, or a designee, shall serve ex-officio.
i. Two members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate who shall each be of different political parties and who shall serve during the legislative session in which the appointment is made, one of whom shall be the Chairman of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, or its successor. A member may be appointed for any number of successive terms.
j. Two members of the General Assembly to be appointed by the Speaker of the General Assembly who shall each be of different political parties and who shall serve during the legislative session in which the appointment is made, one of whom shall be the Chairman of the Assembly Family, Women and Children@s Services Committee, or its successor. A member may be appointed for any number of successive terms.
k. Eight public members shall be directly appointed by the Governor as follows:
(1) three public members who are representatives from employee organizations, two of whom are representatives of the Communications Workers of America;
(2) a public member who is a representative of the Association for Children of New Jersey;
(3) a public member who is a representative of Legal Services of New Jersey;
(4) a public member who is a representative of a contracted service provider to the Division of Youth and Family Services; and
(5) two public members, one of whom is a resource family parent and one of whom is an adoptive parent.
L.2001,c.252,s.2; amended 2004, c.130, s.48; 2005, c.155, s.109.
30:4C-3.3 Terms, voting rights, vacancies.
3. Public members shall serve for terms of three years, and along with ex-officio members, shall have full voting rights. Vacancies in the membership of the Review Panel shall be filled in the same manner provided for the original appointments. The public members of the Review Panel shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for traveling and other miscellaneous expenses necessary to perform their duties, within the limits of funds made available to the Review Panel for its purpose.
L.2001,c.252,s.3.
30:4C-3.4 Organization of Review Panel.
4. The Review Panel shall organize as soon as practicable but no later than 60 days following the appointment of its members. The Governor shall appoint a chairman and vice-chairman from among the members.
L.2001,c.252,s.4.
30:4C-3.5 Meetings, availability of services.
5. The Review Panel may meet at the call of its chairman and at the times and in the places it may deem appropriate and necessary to fulfill its charge. The Review Panel shall be entitled to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of the employees of any State, county or municipal department, board, bureau, commission or agency as it may require and as may be available to it for its purposes. The Department of Human Services shall provide staff services to the Review Panel.
L.2001,c.252,s.5.
30:4C-3.6 Duties of Review Panel.
6. a. The Review Panel shall review the staffing levels of the Division of Youth and Family Services in the Department of Human Services in order to develop recommendations regarding staffing levels and the most effective methods of recruiting, hiring and retaining staff within the Division of Youth and Family Services. In addition, the panel shall review the division@s performance in the achievement of management and client outcomes.
b. The Review Panel shall present a preliminary report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature prior to January 1, 2002, and subsequent reports annually thereafter with the first full report due no later than July 1, 2002.
L.2001,c.252,s.6.
30:4C-3.7 Photographing, fingerprinting of child under custody of DYFS.
1. a. The Division of Youth and Family Services in the Department of Human Services shall provide for the photographing of each child under its custody no later than two months after the division assumes custody of the child. A child who is under the custody of the division on the effective date of this act shall be photographed for the purposes of this act no later than one year after its effective date.
The division shall, in addition, provide for the fingerprinting of any child under its custody with respect to whom the division determines, in accordance with criteria as the Commissioner of Human Services shall establish by regulation, that the availability of a fingerprint record would be appropriate; the fingerprints of any child with respect to whom such a determination is made shall be taken no later than two months after the division has made that determination.
b. The division shall update the photograph of each child taken pursuant to subsection a. of this section at least every two years. In addition, the division shall retain the fingerprint information and photograph of each child for whom such records are taken for at least one year after the date that the child is no longer under the custody of the division.
c. The division shall be entitled to receive the assistance of any other State department, division or agency as it may deem necessary and may receive the assistance of any county or municipal government agency, as may be available, in carrying out the provisions of this act.
L.2003,c.40,s.1.
30:4C-3.8 Rules, regulations.
2. The Commissioner of Human Services, pursuant to the ~Administrative Procedure Act,~ P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act.
L.2003,c.40,s.2.
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